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Janet Yorkshire Humberside service repor...
Service report for organisations in Yorkshire Humberside connected to the Janet network...
Janet Wales service report July 2019
Service report for organisations in Wales connected to Janet via the PSBA...
GDPR: What's your justification?
[Updated Sep.18 to repair links broken by the demise of the Article 29 WP website][Updated...
Wellbeing analytics: legal explorations
While colleagues are looking at whether data can be used to pick up early signs of mental health and wellbeing problems, I'm exploring possible legal frameworks for doing that safely. As the diagram shows, trying to deliver an early warning service to all students falls into a gap between three reasonably familiar areas of data protection law:We'd like a framework that ...
Draft Wellbeing Analytics Code of Practi...
Following on from my previous blog post on the possible uses of wellbeing analytics, we'd very much welcome comments on this latest draft of our Code of Practice. Note that this includes the maximum safeguards from all legal bases that seem likely to apply, so even if our continuing investigations conclude that some of those bases are not appropriate, the Code's recomme...
Free Text and Data Protection
Collections of free text – whether in database fields, documents or email archives &...
Janet Yorkshire Humberside service repor...
Service report for organisations in Yorkshire Humberside connected to the Janet network...
Janet Kent service report June 2019
Service report for organisations in Kent connected to the Janet network via KPSN...
Travelling with encrypted devices
Most portable devices – laptops, smartphones and memory sticks – should be encrypted so that the information they contain is protected if the device is lost or stolen. Many countries (including the UK) give their immigration and other authorities legal powers to demand that you decrypt an encrypted device though given the number of laptops that cross borders every d...
GDPR: Attendance Monitoring
A question recently arose about monitoring students' attendance at lectures and tutori...
GDPR: Alumni processes
Most universities maintain databases of alumni, for purposes including keeping them inform...
GDPR: Backups, Archives and the Right to...
I was recently asked how the GDPR's Right to Erasure would affect backups and archives. However that right, created by Article 17 of the GDPR, only arises when a data controller no longer has a legal basis for processing personal d...
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Service report for organisations in Yorkshire Humberside connected to the Janet network
Service report for organisations in Kent connected to the Janet network via KPSN
Service report for organisations in Wales connected to Janet via the PSBA
Service report for organisations in Wales connected to the Janet network via PSBA
Service report for organisations in Yorkshire Humberside connected to the Janet network
Service report for organisations in Kent connected to the Janet network via KPSN
Monica Whitty's keynote at the FIRST Conference (recording available on YouTube) used...
Merike Kaeo's keynote "Waking Up the Guards" at the FIRST 2019 conference...
